*quickfix.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2016 Jul 17
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
This subject is introduced in section |30.1| of the user manual.
1. Using QuickFix commands |quickfix|
2. The error window |quickfix-window|
3. Using more than one list of errors |quickfix-error-lists|
4. Using :make |:make_makeprg|
5. Using :grep |grep|
6. Selecting a compiler |compiler-select|
7. The error format |error-file-format|
8. The directory stack |quickfix-directory-stack|
9. Specific error file formats |errorformats|
{Vi does not have any of these commands}
The quickfix commands are not available when the |+quickfix| feature was
disabled at compile time.
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1. Using QuickFix commands *quickfix* *Quickfix* *E42*
Vim has a special mode to speedup the edit-compile-edit cycle. This is
inspired by the quickfix option of the Manx's Aztec C compiler on the Amiga.
The idea is to save the error messages from the compiler in a file and use Vim
to jump to the errors one by one. You can examine each problem and fix it,
without having to remember all the error messages.
In Vim the quickfix commands are used more generally to find a list of
positions in files. For example, |